The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-29

S36 and the Money Obtained-The
Pet Snake of Macon Firemen anc
What It Led To.
GEORGIA.
]. j. Burch is the newly elected Mayor Of
Elberton.
Asbury Rochester, of HARRISON county
made from one half acre of "big amber
cane 136 gallons of syrup.
John Martin, Jr., of Wild Cat district
HARRISON county, has found lead in SC
pure state, that he can run It into bullets
or cut it with knife.
Hon. John Bonner, of Carrollton, has re-
Gently shipped to East Point about 10000
feet of fine oak lumber, which will be used
in manufacturing wagons.
A young woman living near the Georgia
factory at Athens got tired of living in
single blessedness and Saturday night ran
away with another womans husband.
The Georgia road has notified the Secre-
tary of the Northeast Georgia Fair Associa-
tionthat it will give the same rate to Athens
during the fair as it gives to the Piedmont
Exposition.
Monday last, at Buchanan, three wagons
were loaded with ore, cotton, corn, and
other products, and sent to Tallapoosa for
shipment to the Piedmont Exposition
The Town Council of Cochran have pur-
chased two more acres of land adjacent to
Weeping Pine cemetery from Judge B. B.
Dykes. The old part of the cemetery is not
filled with graves by great deal, but the
lots have been all bought up, not for specu-
1ation but for legitimate burial purposes.
Sunday night man by the name of W.
r. Bennett was knocked off the depot plat
form at Hamlet, on the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad, about five
miles north of Rockmart, and received in
-juries from which he will die. How he was
knocked off, no one knows, as he was I'M
conscious when found.
The late heavy rain did considerable dam
age between Buchanan and Bremen. The
bridge over the creek. just this side of Bre-
men was washed away. Lindsay Holland
lost about 100 feet of fence and his crop was
damaged. jeff. Summerlin had about 325
panels of fence washed away, and ten acres
of corn badly damaged.
At Augusta Tuesday, at meeting of the
commissioners appointed by Council to
consider and report upon the feasibility,
advisability and cost of construction of a
levee to surround Augusta and prevent
future floods from rises in the river resolu-
tions were adopted favoring an examination
by the City Engineer of the different
places
About week ago, near Bairdstown, a
negro named Bill Cheney was shot by an
other negro named McDuffie Both were
visiting the same woman, and jealousy was
the cause of the occurrence. Cheney died
Tuesday, and the Coroner's verdict was that
Cheney came TO his death by a gun-shot
wound inflicted by the hand of McDuffie.
McDuffie is still at large.
A negro man working in the cross-tie
business at Cochran for d. NJ. Ryle & Co.,
was, in company with a large number of
choppers, telling trees Monday, when a
large tree, in falling, broke a section off of
a dead pine, which fell on him, mangling
the body frightfully and killing him in
stantly. The negro was John Pope, from
about Eastman, and was good hand An
other hand just did escape the unlocked for
tree top.
Gov Gordon sent an executive message
into the Senate Tuesday TO be considered in
executive session, in which the Judge and
Solicitor of the county court of Early county,
recently established by the General Assem-
bly,, were named Hon. Thomas Williams
was nominated Judge for four years, begin
ming with the date of his appointment, and
Hon. r. H. Sheffield was named as Solicitor
for four years also, beginning with the date
of his appointment. No executive session
OF the Senate was held.
A day or SO ago bucket filed with NOR
tar fell from the scaffolding around the new
United States court house at Macon.
upon the head of a colored workman.
Fortunately, the bucket did not turn in its
descent, and struck fiat upon the bottom,
which burst through, leaving the head of
the workman completely encased IN the
mortar and bucket, just as though a cast
was to be made of the head. As it shut off
the Negroes breathing it was lucky that
plxt11a ~ ,1x- =.
new religious sect has suddenly sprung
up, mushroom like, near the Augusta fac
tory at Augusta. The new tribe style
themselves the Saints" The Salvation
Army is completely thrown in the shade.
Tor, besides the big drum and loud singing
several new features are introduced The
washing of the feet is carried out in perfec-
ton, and attempts at miraculous cures
made Service was held in a big
field recently between Brick and Pine
row, at which a large congregation was
present. The services wound up with the
election of an old woman as the faith doc
tor
At Macon the Salvation Army has
dwindled down to half a dozen men and
women who stir up the dust beat the tam
BOURNE and sing their battle songs on the
principal streets. Recently one of the lady
captains married young man named
Charlie Thompson, in East Macon, and left
the army. Happy" Jack left them some
time ago for more orthodox labor IN Che
vineyard. II is now about settled that they
will be expelled by the city authorities be-
tween now and the State fair, as it is ex-
pected they will make themselves very con
spicuous and perhaps cause trouble during
that time.
At Albany day or two ago L. e. WEIGH
noticed his dog after something on his front
porch, and, on investigation, discovered a
red fox on the banister. His coming out
frightened the fox, and it ran out in the
garden and was lost sight Of Later in the
afternoon Jennie WEIGH discovered il again
in the front yard. He ran in the house, got
his air rifle and shot at it twice, but without
effect. Reynard decided it was time to
leave, and trotted off down the street, and
the last seen of him he was going through
Mrs. Brooks yard. He is evidently a tame
one, as wild one would hardly venture
into the heart of the city.
j. e. Russell, of Macon, had a bill against
w. G. Lyons for IS, and Tuesday Joe
Trippe, who is in charge of the shop sent
carpenter named Stringfellow to collect it.
Stringfellow went out and ON his return re-
ported that there was some misunderstand-
ing as to the amount, and that Mr. Lyons was
willing 10 pay SO 80. Trippe told him to go
back and take that amount Stringfellow
again went TO Mr.. Lyons, who saw that the
amount had been reduced, and ordered his
lady cashier to pay the bill. In some way,